10-year-old boy weighing 90 kilos with rare disease that makes him eat even toilet paper

Caden Benjamin

 

• The 10-year-old suffers from a rare, incurable genetic disorder which makes him feel hungry all the time
• While most people take three meals in a day, Benjamin eats hourly

At age 10, Caden Benjamin, from Mpumalanga, South Africa already tips the scales at a whopping 90 kilogrammes. He suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as Prader-Willi syndrome, which makes him feel hungry all the time.

Caden was always a hungry child, but his mother, Zola, realised that there was something unusual about his appetite at age three, when he already weighed 40 kilogrammes.